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400 JURISPRUDENCE. 
Q. How long were you examining this horse? A. Probably a 
quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. 
Q. After examining the horse for a quarter of an hour, you came 
to the conclusion that he had the glanders ? A. Yes, sir, I announced 
that conclusion. 
Q. Did you announce it positively—that the symptoms shown were 
characteristic of the glanders ? A. I said he had the glanders posi¬ 
tively. 
Q. Where was the horse when you first saw him ? A. At the door 
of the headquarters of the Society. 
Q. In the street ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. Where did you take him to examine him ? A. I examined him 
there. 
Q. Was there a large number of people gathered around ? A. 
There may have been a few. 
Q. How many? A. I could not say. 
Q. Was there a dozen ? A. I do not know ; I could not really say. 
I was thinking more of my case, rather, than of the people who were 
there. 
By the Court: 
Q. From the appearance of these marks on this horse—the pustules 
in the nostrils in your opinion or knowledge—was that a sudden dis¬ 
ease, 01 had it taken days to establish itself ? A. I believe it to hove 
been a chronic case. 
Q. How long, in your opinion, had the disease established itself in 
the horse before you saw him ? A. It must have existed ai least three 
months. 
Q. Would any man , possessed of a superficial knowledge of horses, 
have made any mistake as to this horse being sick or diseased l rl. I think 
not , sir. 
Edward McGinness, being duly sworn, testified : 
Q. What is your business ? A. I am a partner in an iron firm in 
Seventy-sixth Street. 
Q. Do you know where the horse market is in Seventy-fourth 
Street ? A. Yes, sir. 
Q. Had you at any time prior to the 3d of October seen the horse 
here spoken of in this case ? A. I had. 
Q. Plow long before ? A. In the market on the day previous to 
the arrest. 
